p. 22 | Save the Boys by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 4, 1906

“Save the Boys”

By Editor

WHAT are we doing to save them? “In one State’s prison, where many young men are confined, inquiry proved that the majority were there on account of strong drink, and that more than eighty per cent had been Sunday-school pupils, and yet only one per cent had been asked to sign the pledge in the Sunday-school.”

Mr. Eaton, in The New Voice, says: “Never existed so many reasons for outlawing the saloon; never such an appalling increase of drunkenness and crime; . . . never such abject prostitution of public men to the thralldom of the saloon power; and the ministry, divided or silent, and the church, until recently, apathetic or indifferent.”

Doubtless, there are twenty millions of boys and girls in this nation alone who are exposed to untold temptations to untold evils. They are all around us. What are we doing to save them? Surely, we should be doing a hundredfold more than we are now doing. Let us arouse to the situation, lest the blood of souls be found upon our garments. Come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty foes of rum and tobacco.

The writer is trying to do something, but he can do many times more if the reader will co-operate. Wm. J. Boynton says that the journal Save the Boys should be in every Seventh-day Adventist home; and all should work to place it in the hands of their neighbors. We are trying to make it worthy of all this. It is illustrated; contains sixteen pages. Send five cents for sample copy, or 40 cents for a year’s subscription. Order a club of 10 copies to one address before the first of February, at $2. We have yet a few thousand of the twenty-four-page anti-tobacco booklet, at reduced rates—65 cents a hundred, post-paid. Address Save the Boys, Washburn Park, Minneapolis, Minn.